University of North Alabama related articles

In a case that lasted only 10 minutes, Wendell Wilkie Gunn, with the help of famed civil rights attorney Fred Gray, obtained a court order demanding that he be allowed to enroll at what is now the University of North Alabama. He did so on September 11, 1963 and graduated in 1965.

A member of the university’s football team used a racial slur on Twitter when the NBC Television network preempted a football game to cover President Obama’s speech at the memorial for victims of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting.